Everything Happens for a Reason
Life would be an extremely boring experience if we understood it. Somehow, it provides you with the most beautiful opportunities and gifts that you never even concluded that you wanted, but fully appreciated once they existed. The most painful experiences are the result of the choices made by others. It is from these situations that I have found strength...not only within myself, but also in every single human being that has ever come into my life. Many years later I sit here and laugh to myself how funny things can turn out. The past becomes the past for a reason, but with faith and learning it can also find itself as a wonderful aspect of your present. Mistakes are opportunities for learning experiences, from which one is able to grow, and from growth springs love. I look back on how much of a different person I was less than five years ago. In a way, I cannot help but fear the fact that I cannot find any connections between my identity then and my identity now. They say that people don't change, but how is it possible that I know that I am a completely different person? What exactly were the factors that improved and shaped me into the person that I am as I stand before you today? And what if something came along that caused me to fall? Would you want to make the effort to catch me and hold me until I gained stability on my own two feet again? Will you continue to believe in me through both every positive and negative life event? Most importantly, will you be able to stand along side me because you want to?